The Disturbing Symptoms Of WOW Withdrawal

It's 2009. The internet was supposed to make us smarter, more discerning people. But if you present ANY fake ass thing as 'real,' people just buy it. It's bizarre.

Where...where did his clothes go?

I'm so glad that wasn't real. So very glad.

It's fake as fuck. But, even if it's fake...what the hell was he going to do with the remote up his ass?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhpCfSslq1w#t=0m38s

ummm... change the channel?

Considering the amount of people I've seen doing that kind of thing to varying levels, and how much the brother was laughing. I gotta lean towards real.

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I knew this random talent would come in handy one day.

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That should do it. Remove to a low flame.

This one is pretty clearly a fake but what about the one from a few years ago featuring the German kid freaking out over Halo (or maybe Call of Duty)? I wasn't sure on that one. The foreign language was throwing me off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWBfLOZ2CjQ

This is another freak out by the same kid, but this time he's sitting there playing the game yelling cause someone (I think his brother said he was doing it) keeps betraying him in the game.

The mom coming and yelling at him part way through leads me to believe the first one was real.

The little brother of my brothers girlfriend actually had a major freak-out when his account in WoW got banned for hacking, when he only hacked in, loosely translated "the shitty arena, and I dont play that anymore", and when he learned 2 days later it was a permanent ban, he demolished (sadly, this is the truth) an entire wall of shelves, some of them with glass plates and relatively expensive stuff like vases in them, in the living room, then slammed his rooms door hard enough to rip out the hinges, and smashed the numpad of his keyboard.
I was in the garden with the rest of the family, we were invited to barbecue, which promptly got cancelled more or less as the entire hosting family was busy blaming their son, themselves, the computers and each other for the havoc.
I just saw the battlefield in that living room after he was done, and boy was that epic.

So I am afraid even while I would not be surprised to know it was staged, I know that this sort of freak-out is quite realistically possible. You have to remember this is a teenager in probably his most volatile years, and then remember the last time you saw someone with a severe case of addiction withdrawal caused by someone else, such as stealing his smokes on a sailing trip or similar.
Its really not that far out. And hell, its really entertaining.

I know man, These people exist by the many.
And I gotta figure if it was staged, it would be blatantly obvious, teenagers like that are NOT good actors unless they were child actors or something and would have a clear tell, such as looking at the camera at least a couple of times to make sure he's in frame or something of the like.

So if we accept for a second that it's real: Would you characterize that episode as WoW withdrawal specifically, or just a pampered baby having his favorite toy taken away?

It seems a lot more like he's just a big baby who had his toy taken away.. Likely again.